Hanging Out with Alice and Margaret

Earlier this week, our own Thomas Beckwithwrote about Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood’s Google Hangout. If you missed it, you can watch a video now. They discuss everything from hate mail to the Canadian short story.

“When I heard Afro-Brazilian people speak Portuguese, first in films like City of God and Bus 174, and then live and direct in Bahia, I fell hard for the ease, lyricism, and lilt in their voices which reminded me of the Anglophone Caribbean family and community I grew up in.” Over at Words Without Borders, Naomi Jackson reflects on blackness in Brazil.